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by healyjason

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Hi

Yesterday I added 2 gb of ram to my PC on top of the existing 512mb and since then my PC is constantly rebooting randomly

I had a similar problem a few years back where it would just do it occasionally, like after a few hours of use

But today its literally non stop, sometimes 2 minutes after startup, sometimes 20

Any ideas?

Thanks
Jason

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by ---tk---

I would remove the 512 and see if it still reboots. If it does (reboot) remove the New ram, put the old ram back in, reboot, and see if acts the same...

by healyjason

Hi

I am going to do that now, but first here is some info from a blue screen that came up when i switched off the 'auto reboot' at an error

stop: 0x0000008E (0xc0000005, 0xBF8048CE, 0xB7B3E81C, 0x00000000)

win32k.sys - address BF8048CE base at BF900000, DateStamp 43446a58

by ---tk---

others have stated that it errors with 0x0000008E have resulted in the motherboard... but it looks like you have multiple memory locations which would lead me to first go after the RAM (512)...

I had the problem with conflicting RAM when I first started building PC's... some brands play nice together, some don't... and you get the constant reboot... Im sure if you run memory tests it will come back as all the modules are good, but together they dont play nice....

by healyjason

Just to let you know. The machine has worked problem free since your suggestion!

by healyjason

So far so good:
I removed the 512 and things APPEAR to be doing alright for the past 30 mins roughly, but ill keep an eye on it

Thanks for the advice!

by ---tk---

you should be in the clear! Feel free to mark as helpful if this helped you out :)

by healyjason

Yeah thanks again, its been running fine for hours now

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